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Entropist posted:They generally have red asphalt, are lower than the sidewalk (clearly not a part of it), and have signs at the beginning and end and at any intersections where they are interrupted. Sometimes a bike icon is painted on them, and the ones near the central station even have solid lines along the edges with bike icons every metre, facing the edges of the path, to make even the most clueless of tourists aware. That's more effort than they put into it in any other Dutch city! I think it's pretty clear, and Dutch people from out of town have no problem in Amsterdam as far as I know. I guess you were just not used to the way they are marked. I didn't really notice any red asphalt to be honest but maybe it's just faded. And the signs seem to be oriented towards the bikes not pedestrians. But you are right that they are fairly obvious after you get used to it. Although there were still times we were just standing on the sidewalk looking at a map and got paranoid we were actually in a bike lane.
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It's a mandatory evacuation for "low lying areas" in some Florida counties. Isn't all of Florida low lying?
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Oct 6, 2016 22:37
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Any theories on what could have motivated this? It's at a school near me. That grassy bit on the right is just a hill that goes down. Why not just continue the sidewalk???
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Nov 9, 2016 20:12
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http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2016/09/01/taconic-exit-numbers/89580634/ New numbers. Well, new numbers replacing the lack of any numbers.
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Nov 28, 2016 20:32
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Yeah, CT has literally one proper tunnel. Lots of bridges though. And a viaduct in Hartford.
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Feb 16, 2017 01:32
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I swear the only reason our local big city still has parking space requirements is so they can drag every project before the zoning board for a variance. They certainly don't actually want anyone to put in parking lots downtown.
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Mar 15, 2017 00:49
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Interesting traffic control signs from Denver: NO DOUBLE TURN NO RIGHT ON RED (much smaller) WHEN PEDESTRIANS ARE PRESENT
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Jun 9, 2017 15:36
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I’m always sad about the cities built on waterways that bulldozed the port areas after container shipping took over and replaced them with highways.
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Dec 30, 2017 15:45
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Where it crosses 295, that’s a toll plaza, so maybe they got rid of some connections to make the tolling simpler.
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Dec 18, 2018 13:48
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Thought this was an fun video. Guy worked on a highway project in Connecticut for the last few years and his wedding videographer wife cut his footage together into a 20 minute video. Shows how much works goes into a highway project nowadays, especially if their are bridges and waterways involved. The rebar alone is ridiculous. https://youtu.be/c7k5o6NoXZ0
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Jan 9, 2019 04:09
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Pretty suspicious about that private road story having that many updates in such a short time.
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Sep 22, 2019 13:28
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Guy Axlerod posted:People around here are really bad at body language. I'll stop for people who clearly want to cross the street, only for them to wave me on and refuse to cross. This is tough because even though the law will say you have to stop for pedestrians, a lot of cars don’t stop, and a lot of pedestrians would rather cross when there are no cars rather than when you are waiting.
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Aug 29, 2020 16:01
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Ha, this reminds me of my wife’s bad habit of waving people through... when she’s in the passenger seat.
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Sep 2, 2020 23:10
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Our local road crew is as good at applying stickers as I am.
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Apr 30, 2021 12:54
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We have some low activity freight lines around here that only have one or two trains a day and the grade crossings are uncontrolled. One side effect of this is that they have to blow their horn multiple times at every crossing, which is way more annoying than the actual train noise. Plus they are going very slow.
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May 11, 2021 13:24
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On a different topic, what would you call this interchange style? The traffic lights are all on the side of the overpass.  Edit: of course I figured it out immediately after I posted: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-point_urban_interchange smackfu fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Sep 30, 2022 |
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Sep 30, 2022 12:53
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After reading that, thankful we had sat nav for our recent trip to SLC. That does remind me of a random question… they have express lanes there on I-15 that are either electronically tolled or HOV 2+. How do they tell whether to toll you or not?
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Oct 1, 2022 16:50
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I looked it up. I guess if you don’t have a transponder, they assume you are HOV. If you have a transponder and are HOV, you slide something on the transponder to disable it and it shows “HOV”. Apparently the enforcement is manual, with a trooper driving next to single drivers to see if they have a transponder in the right mode. So just spot checks, but pretty large fines.
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Oct 1, 2022 17:51
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From my watching of YouTube videos, seems like the key to working fast on road projects is: 1) being able to shut down all the roads 2) not having to compact any dirt The precast concrete tunnel nicely solves the second one.
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Dec 1, 2022 14:22
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Some towns do 12 minutes for green curbs / short term parking. Doesn’t really help answer the question except maybe it’s 60 / 5 = 12 x 2 = 24
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Dec 2, 2022 02:07
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They redid the traffic lights at a nearby intersection and it’s very annoying.code:The traffic light was recently replaced as part of an effort to replace all the traffic lights on the state road with fancier LED ones on strung wires rather than poles. Part of this work gave the restaurant parking lot a traffic light. But because the driveway isn’t quite aligned with the opposite road, it needs its own phase. And for whatever reason, they didn’t put a sensing loop in the restaurant parking lot, so they always get their phase, even though they barely have any traffic. The net result is that the fancy new light means everyone going from the side road now needs to wait an extra 20 seconds where the intersection is getting no traffic.
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Jun 22, 2023 12:52
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Cool, I will try writing to the DOT and see what they say.
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Jun 22, 2023 17:23
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Heh, I contacted the state DOT about something similar on a state road and they said:quote:Although the road in question may be a state road, requests and suggestions of this nature must first be reviewed by the Town’s Local Traffic Authority (LTA) since they are generally more familiar with local issues.
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It’s a problem whenever you have two usages with very different speeds. Like there can be a decent amount of bike traffic and also very few bikes from the perspective of the walker.
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